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H. E. GAGE. HOLDER FOR PAPER BAGS.

No. 401,825. Patented Apr. 23, 188 9..

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UNITED STATES HERBERT E. GAGE, OF LOIVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

. HOLDER FOR PAPER BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,825, dated April23, 1889.

Application filed June '7, 1888' Serial No. 276,409. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. GAGE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inHolders for Paper Bags and other Articles, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to holders for paper bags and other articles; andit consists in the means hereinafter described and claimed for securingpaper bags or similar articles to the holder, in means for raising andlowering said holder and of securing the same at a suitable height, andin the devices and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an insometric view of myimproved holder and the means of raising and lowering the same, packagesof paper bags held in said holder, a twin e-basket secured to saidholder, and a cord-grip secured to said holder and clamping the cord bywhich said holder is raised or lowered. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionof the holder, omitting the lifting and supporting cords, the sectionbeing in a vertical. plane on the line 00 0c in Fig. 1,the paper bagsshown in Fig. 1 being omitted, and two of the hangers being in centralsection for a short distance from theirlower ends to show the means ofsecuring the spring-skewers in place; Fig. 3, a vertical section of oneof the arms of the holder, showing a portion of the main bar in sideelevation and an end elevation of one of the skewers.

The holder consists of the main bar A,which may be a straight bar ofwood or other material, and cross-bars B B, provided with holes 17 toreceive and fit the main bar A, the crossbars being provided withhangers h, each of which is provided with one or more recesses, b, toreceive the skewers O. The cross'bars B nearest the ends of the main barA are each provided near each end with ahole or eye, 11 to receive thesupporting-cord D 5 but in other respects all the cross-bars aresubstantially alike. The spring-skewers O are each formed of a piece ofspring-wire bent into a loop, 0, preferably near the end of the Wire,the end portions of the wire being in the same straight line. The objectof the loop 0 is to allow the ends of the skewer G to be brought nearereach other by compressing the upper portion of the loop c in the hand toallow the ends of the loop opening when the pressure of the hand isremoved and throwing the ends of the skewer outward into said recesses.The longer straight portions of the skewers are passed through openingsin paper bags E near the tops of said bags before being inserted in therecesses b and hold the bags together in the holder and allow them to beremoved therefrom singly by tearing out the top of the bag by pullingthe same downward.

Each package of paper bags contains only one size of bags, and thedifferent sizes may be arranged. in the holder according to convenience.Thus it will be well to arrange the smaller sizes nearest the person forwhose use the holder is intended; but if. the holder is to be suspendedover a counter, and used by persons on either side of the counter, itwill be more desirable to arrange the larger sizes on the middle row ofskewers directly under the main bar, placing the smaller sizes on. theouter row of skewers. I w 1 v v In practice the holder is intended to besuspended from the ceiling of a store. A convenient means of suspendingthe holder is shown in Fig. l, in which D represents a supporting-cordlooped twice through the eyes 19 of the end bar, 13, at the left of theholder, thence carried over pulleys E F, thence over other pulleys, E F,then looped twice through eyes 2' e" of a yoke, I, thence over pulleys HG and over other pulleys, G H, after which they are looped twice throughthe eyes 19 of the end bar, B, at the right of the holder, and the endsof the cord are tied in a knot, d, be tween said last-named eyes. Itwill be understood that the pulleys above named are to be secured to theceiling of the room in which the holder is used in any usual manner. Theyoke I is provided with another eye, 2' through which another cord, 1),is inserted and tied, by pulling downward on which cord the holder israised. The cord D passes througha cordgrip, D of such construction thatthe cord may be drawn freely in a vertical direction or allowed to slipvertically upward through said grip; but if the cord be bent against thegrip it will be immediately clamped and prevent the descent of theholder. The grip shown is not, however, of my invention. I do not limitmyself to the use of this cord-grip,

but may use any suitable cord-grip or ropeclamp, or may tie thelifting-cord D to the main bar. a

It will be noticed that the parts of the cord D which connect thepulleys E E on the one hand and the pulleys G G on the other cross eachother, while the parts of the said cord Which connect the pulleys F Fand H H do not cross each other, or, in other words, that the front endof each end baris attached to the end of the yokeI farthest from saidend bar, while the rear end of each end bar is attached to the end ofthe yoke nearest to'said end bar and the ascending and descending partsof the cord D are substantially vertical.

It follows that depressing any corner of the holder will tend to raiseone end of the yoke I in such a manner as to allow thediagonallyopposite corner of the holder to fall by its own weight; butthe end bars being rigidly attached to the main bar, it follows thatdepressing either corner or end or side of the holder will tend todepress equally the entire holder, so that within certain limits ofinequality of weights on opposite sides of the holder every position ofthe holderis parallel to every other position of the same, and theholder may always be held in a horizontal or inclined position, asdesired, and may be so suspended from an inclined ceiling as, withinsaid limits, to be horizontal at all times by properly proportioning thelengths of the different parts of the cord D-that is, by giving agreater length to the parts of the cord which connect one end bar to theyoke than to the parts of said cord which connect the other end bar tosaid yoke.

The above-described tendency of the holder to be depressed equally byunequal weights on opposite sides of the middle of the same prevailswith any inequality of weights which could occur in the case of theholder when used to support paper bags, and would prevail if the holderwere used to support heavier articles, provided the weights were placedbetween the supporting-cords and the middle of the holder, and provided,also, that the liftin g-cord D were secured by a grip supportedindependently of the holder; but when the grip is supported upon theholder, as may most conveniently be done, the holder itself becomes alever having a central fulcrum, and too great a disparity of weight uponthe opposite arms of the lever will depress the most heavily weightedend and raise the other.

The holder with-all its parts, as above described, may be used forholding wrappingpapers of different sizes, or for holding an assortmentof printed blanks, train-schedules, or a variety of other articles.

I In Fig. 1 a twine holder or basket, J, is shown attached to the mainbar. This will be found to be a convenient arrangement, as the twine andthe paper bags are thus placed near to each other, and are commonly required to be used by the same person at the same time. Obviously thecord D may be in four separate pieces, each piece uniting one corner ofthe holder to the yoke.

The holder without the skewers and hangers or the main bar without thecross-bars may be suspended as above described, and used for the displayof small articles, as furnishing goods or dry goods, and raised out ofthe way, and lowered foruse within reach of the attendant.

Where a pole or bar equivalent to the main bar A is used without thecross-bars and hangers, the opposite ends of the bar should be connectedto the yoke and hung precisely as two diagonallyopposite corners of theholder above described are hung.

The yoke I is rat-her for convenience and for appearance than becausenecessary, for the inner ends or bights of the cord-sections may beunited directly to the lifting-cord D with the same resultthat is, withthe result that depressing any corner of the holder will have atendency, within the limits above stated,to lower thediagonally-opposite corners.

In all cases the pulleys should be so placed as to bring the ascendingand descending parts of the cord D as nearly vertical as possible Iclaim as my invention- 1. The combination of the holder provided withhangers having oppositely-arranged recesses, and spring-skewers adaptedto be compressed, to be placed between said hangers and by theirexpansion to enter said recesses and to be thereby held in place, as andfor the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the holder provided with hangers havingoppositely-arranged recesses, and skewers formed of spring-wire, each ofsaid skewers having a loop between its ends and being adapted by thecompression of said loop to have its ends drawn toward each other toenter between a pair of hangers and by the expansion of said loop IIO toforce its ends into said recesses, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of the holder, the yoke, one or more cords connectingthe corners of said holder to said yoke and passing over pulleys betweeneach such corner and said yoke, the diagonally-opposite corners of saidholder being connected to the same end of said yoke, and another cordattached to said yoke to draw the same downward to raise said holder,and when secured to maintain said holder in. a raised position, wherebydepress= ing one side, end, or corner of said holder will have atendency to depress to an equal amount the other side, end, or corner ofthe same, as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence oftwo attesting witnesses, this 29th day of March, A. D. 1888.

' HERBERT E. GAGE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. Moons, KIRKLE'Y HYDE.

